Saucers with Matching Shells
Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
1893–1914
- Medium
- Pair of dishes; porcelain with green glaze and crackling, molded design
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- height (each): 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); width (each): 12 cm (4 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Yohei III’s main output for his sophisticated clientele was in the form of tea sets and dining sets. He created a range of dishes in green glazes. He often produced in pairs, sets of five, or sets of ten.
This pair of shell dishes have a box lid interior attestation by Yohei IV that the dishes were made by Yohei III with a cracked-ice (hyōretsu) pattern in the glaze, omitting reference to any glaze coloration.
